Comments on: My Application to ITP http://carolineabrown.com/2008/12/my-application-to-itp/ Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:43 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Greg Borenstein http://carolineabrown.com/2008/12/my-application-to-itp/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Greg Borenstein Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:58:04 +0000 http://itp.nyu.edu/~cab513/blog/?p=285#comment-6 Hello, Caroline. I found this post via the ITP Blog Blender. I'm applying to ITP for next fall and just finished and submitted my essay last week. After turning it in, I was gripped by a strong desire to share it as well; I felt like, in answering their question, I'd drawn out some ideas within myself that I hadn't ever quite articulated before, even privately. I decided to post my essay on my blog here: http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2008/12/on_failure.html Interestingly, my background is significantly different from yours and yet the forces and frustrations that draw me to ITP have a similiarity to what you describe here. The prompt for this year's essay speciifically asked us to describe our greatest failure. I experienced a similar frustration with the limits of the VC-funded startup process in limiting creativity and techno-creative possibility as you did with trying to explain the search interface to your artistically inclined students. I really hope that I am lucky enough to be admitted and get to join your community of other people who share this frustration and the creative ideas and drive to do something about it. Hello, Caroline. I found this post via the ITP Blog Blender. I’m applying to ITP for next fall and just finished and submitted my essay last week. After turning it in, I was gripped by a strong desire to share it as well; I felt like, in answering their question, I’d drawn out some ideas within myself that I hadn’t ever quite articulated before, even privately. I decided to post my essay on my blog here: http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2008/12/on_failure.html

Interestingly, my background is significantly different from yours and yet the forces and frustrations that draw me to ITP have a similiarity to what you describe here. The prompt for this year’s essay speciifically asked us to describe our greatest failure. I experienced a similar frustration with the limits of the VC-funded startup process in limiting creativity and techno-creative possibility as you did with trying to explain the search interface to your artistically inclined students.

I really hope that I am lucky enough to be admitted and get to join your community of other people who share this frustration and the creative ideas and drive to do something about it.

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